Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 will not run if SCIM is running. You are running SCIM if you have installed another language to Ubuntu via System -> Administration -> Language Support. To circumvent, do the following

Hoe kan ik DVD playback capability installeren

ironss: gstreamer dvd plugin is available as part of plugins-bad (or ugly?) en does not work reliably. However, Totem works met the xine backend to play back DVDs. This will keep you going until gstreamer gets dvd playback. Note that you do not have to install xine-ui or mplayer as suggested in

in both cases you might also need to install dependencies of the player package if dpkg returns een dependency error.

sudo apt-get -f install

to get support voor more formats you have to install libxine-extracodecs (check Restricted Formats voor more info)

sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs

or use an alternate procedure: double klik (or right klik en select "Open met gdebi") op the deb files so they are opened met gdebi, first democracyplayer-data_0.9.0.2-1ubuntupcf_all.deb en after that democracyplayer_0.9.0.2-1ubuntupcf_i386.deb (if you have een 32bit processor) or democracyplayer_0.9.0.2-1ubuntupcf_amd64.deb (if you have een 64bit processor)

Hoe kan ik Chinese Input Method (SCIM) installeren

The following advices are outdated en it could be hard to revert to normal afterwards. Please follow instead the official Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake guide HERE

Please note that scim is now installed by default in Dapper, en installing Chinese, Japanese or Korean Support is done using System>Administration>Language Support. The wiki details the method more thoroughly

Hoe kan ik Windows Applicaties in Linux (Wine) installeren

Wine Is Not an Emulator. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API op top of X en Unix. Think of Wine as een compatibility layer voor running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is een completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.

Do you want een console like in een first person shooter? Tilda should take care of you.

sudo apt-get install tilda

The default keybinding is F1. To change the default keybinding, either enter tilda -C at the terminal, or right klik op the tilda terminal then klik Preferences. While in preferences, you can change other things such as transparency, font, size, en window size.